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Ezra Klein
Was just looking at my Planters Honey Roasted Peanuts label and thinking, “Wow, 150 calories for 39 pieces, that’s pretty damn good.”
“Huh. Why ‘pieces’ and not ‘nuts’?”
“They’re half nuts aren’t they? That’s what they mean by pieces. Fucking Planters.”
Aside from the decidedly unshocking news that I don’t think about very interesting things, let this be a warning to you: labels lie, and if they seem too good to be true, they probably are.
Ezra Klein is a former Prospect writer and current editor-in-chief at Vox. His work has appeared in the LA Times, The Guardian, The Washington Monthly, The New Republic, Slate, and The Columbia Journalism Review. He’s been a commentator on MSNBC, CNN, NPR, and more. More by Ezra Klein
